Ravi’s Blog

I have been working on my startup and making some progress. I don’t have a product ready to launch, but i am no where near giving up and searching for a job either. However, a lot of recruiters contact me and try to talk me into considering some job or the other.
As a startup […]

Last year, when the new yahoo maps api came out, i developed a quick wordpress plugin - GeoPress - that allowed a user tag their wordpress posts with lat/long. It was a neat toy, but wasn’t as fun or usable. For example, folks could only include static maps vs the cooler, nicer draggable maps. […]

Here’s a great post from dave shen. I can tell you more about it, but read it for yourself and enjoy

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may be i should have a link roll or something to point people to what i read. While i think about that, i still have a good blog post for you folks to check out
Given the rise of blogging, does owning a blog do good to your career or the opposite? The conventional wisdom is […]

Yahoo! released a new home page recently. I suppose most/any of you who read this blog already know this great piece of news. It’s been well covered all over the press including techcrunch, business week. You can find Scott Gatz’s (Director of PM in personalization @ yahoo) blog talking about some of the finer thinking […]

So bidding finally closed on the small software tool i advertised in rentacoder.com. I got a total of 12 replies, with quite a few people rated close to 10 on a scale of ten. Of these 4 people submitted a formal bid. Several people seemed to have built software very similar to what I wanted. […]

I am at tiecon today. Tiecon is a conference for “indus entrepreneurs”. Indus referring to a river in northern india and meant to associate all entrpreneus from the indian subcontinet. Out here at tiecon though, there’s clearly a lot of indians, but a good bit of folks from everywhere it seems. I guess they need […]

Things going well with the rent a coder project that i posted. Since it’s relatively simple windows client project, I received 6 bids in 12 hours. 2 of them replied with actual bids and good overview of their prior experience. One of the 2 actual bidders asked enough questions to force me to refine my […]

Following the advice of Mark Fletcher from startup school day, I carved out a piece of software that i want to build and posted it on RentACoder.com Let’s see how things turn out. So far, I registered and posted my job. Their UI is definitely not web 2.0 and I got about 3-4 […]

Startup school speaker notes are on it’s wiki. Best place to get the complete notes.

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